
The battle was over, the human army had been defeated, most of them were killed in the battle, not even 20 percent of the remaining soldiers, they all fled from Alfheim.
Elena walked towards the remains of the battleground, the previously green expanse of grass now adorned with blood and corpses.
A pungent smell began to spread in the air, it felt like anyone who was in that place would experience tremendous mental stress caused by what they saw.
"Hueeekk..."
Elena suddenly felt nauseous after seeing the corpses around her, the wounds they had were so severe that parts of their organs were separated, there were even some that had until their internal organs scattered out.
Not a few dead animals were scattered, the remaining elf troops began to evacuate the victims who died in the battle.
"Your Majesty!!"
"Ah, I'm fine..."
A fairy who was with him worried about Elena, but immediately Elena told the fairy that she was fine.
"Cruel!!"
"Why are they doing all this?!"
Her tears flowed out, seeing how cruel those who had destroyed her were, the fairies were lying lifeless with terrible wounds.
"I'm sorry I can't answer!"
"But there is no other way, they have fought hard to protect this Alfheim!"
"And it wasn't in vain!"
The elf could not answer anything, the sadness mixed with anger was very clear on his face, he clenched his palms firmly trying to hide his pity, had the humans not invaded Alfheim, none of this would have happened.
"But it's too cruel!!"
"Isn't there any other way without having to fight?!"
Elena tried to refute that fact, how naive she was to expect peace with humans, because basically humans are despicable creatures, they care nothing but their passions.
"I'm sorry, but this is the truth!"
"What has happened can never be repeated!"
"However it is an honor for us to protect your safety and the peace of Alfheim!"
"And we never regret it at all!"
Then the fairy hugged Elena's body tightly while smiling, Elena cried in the fairy's arms.
"Therefore, stop crying Your Majesty..."
"It doesn't suit you!"
The elf immediately tried to calm Elena who continued to cry sobbing.
"Grraaa..."
"Huh?"
Not long after that a black shadow appeared above them, it was Hydra and the dragon god who were flying over.
At once Elena looked up, clenching both hands on Elena's chest, feeling a little relieved at the return of the Dragon God.
"Elena are you okay?!"
"Ah, fine..."
The Dragon God immediately came down from Hydra, he immediately asked Elena's situation with his cold face as usual, Elena replied in a weak tone.
"Welcome back, sir..."
"Yes." Yeah."
Elena said welcome to the Dragon God while trying to hide her sadness.
"What's the matter Elena?"
"Eh?"
"You look sad!"
But the Dragon God easily found out, he asked Elena about it and immediately surprised her.
"No, I'm fine..."
Then Elena immediately dodged the question and convinced him that she was okay.
"Umm. sir..."
"Hmm?"
"Bo-can I ask you something?"
Elena suddenly tried to say something to the Dragon God, but her weak voice made her almost inaudible.
"What's that?"
The god asked Elena about her request.
"Please turn them back on!"
"I know that I don't deserve to say it..."
"But please help them!"
Elena also said her request loudly, her eyes back in tears.
Elena cried for help from the Dragon God, she could not bear to see the fairies just killed.
"Sorry, I can't do it!"
However, the answer given by the Dragon God was not what Elena expected.
"But you can't do it...."
"I understand your sadness!"
"However, I cannot raise a man who is not bound by my blood!"
"Because literally they are not my descendants!"
The Dragon God explained slowly to Elena that he could not do it.
"Givers are born from the blessings of the Tree of Life!"
"Like the seeds of a plant that grows from the ground!"
"They absorb the natural energy that is around them as a source of strength!"
"I'm sorry I can't do that!"
The Dragon God could not revive the dead fairies due to their different powers.
"That's it....."
"Sorry for my selfishness...."
Hearing that Elena felt a little disappointed, but there was no other choice, only the fairy and human races could use natural energy, whereas the beast and angel races could not do so.
Humans are special creatures, they can evolve into other races after gaining certain powers, such as Elena who turned into a fairy race and also the inhabitants of the Dragon Empire who turned into a dragon race.
In Elena's case, the Dragon God was able to heal her again since she was previously a human, in contrast to the true fairy race who were born from pure natural energy.
"An old tree will fall and be replaced by a new, more beautiful tree!"
"That's the cycle of life!"
Not long after one of the fairies standing beside Elena said something, she tried to make Elena feel a little calmer.
"Yes Your Majesty...."
"You don't have to be sad!"
"They've fought their hardest to protect Alfheim!"
"Then we should respect their merits and let them rest in peace!"
"We must carry them away with a smile!"
Several other elves also cheered Elena on, slowly Elena was able to control her emotions, she wiped the tears on her face and immediately turned around to help clear the battlefield.
The day was dark, the fairies decided to continue the post-war purge and evacuate the dead the next day.
Inside the fairy castle, Elena was sitting on a chair facing towards a fairy who was lying on her bed, her facial expression looking a little worried about the state of the fairy.
The girl lying down was the one who had helped Elena in the fight against the spear knight.
Because she received a very severe injury in the fight, the fairy was unconscious, lucky she was treated immediately, and now the fairy is in recovery.
In the silence of the room, Elena sat pensively staring at the fairy, the drowsiness that attacked her made Elena slowly lose her consciousness.
"Hmmm....."
His body felt weak, his balance began to waver and he would fall from his chair.
"Huh?"
"I think I'm exhausted...."
But Elena managed to control her body so as not to fall, she also rubbed her eyes to clarify the back on her face.
Elena looked back at the elf, her worries looking very clear on her face, she always hoped that the fairy would rise soon.
"I'm sorry...."
"It's all my fault...."
Then Elena started muttering, it seems that she still blames herself for what happened to them.
"I promise to try hard!"
"In order not to trouble others...."
Elena promised herself to do better, all this time she thought she was just a burden to others.
She still hesitated to kill someone again, whenever Elena looked at her palm, she always remembered the incident, her twitching hands trembled and nausea instantly surfaced.
However Elena tried not to think about it, as it could make her drown in regret.
What he had to do now was to improve himself and continue moving forward, he did not want the Dragon God to feel disappointed in him.
Slowly Elena again felt a heavy drowsiness, time passed and without realizing she had slept beside the fairy.
The Dragon God was outside the palace with Hydra, he saw a pigeon flying closer towards him, the Dragon God also extended his right arm to greet the bird.
Not long after the pigeon was perched on his arm, it was a messenger bird, he received a letter that seemed to be from the Dragon Empire.
He oun opened the scroll, on the paper a message was written:
"With all due respect we send this letter to you, the Empire is currently in conflict with the surrounding countries, they form alliances and reject the establishment of this Empire, he said, most likely in the next few days the battle will be imminent."
"But you don't have to worry, sir, we can handle this ourselves, we're ready to wait for your next order, sorry for our cunning, Alpha."
After reading the message, the Dragon God replied to him, he wrote a message using his blood on the blank piece of paper.
"Go!"
Then he put the letter back in a small box located on the pigeon's back, slowly the pigeon flew away with his letter.
After that the Dragon God sat down near Hydra and gazed towards the moon, slowly Hydra wrapped her body around her.
"Ma.mmm...."
Elena slowly opened her eyes, her gaze looked a little blurry and her consciousness had yet to fully return.
"Good morning, Your Majesty!"
"Uh?"
Suddenly a voice called out to her, Elena was immediately shocked and immediately looked back.
"Miss Sylvia?"
"Yes...."
What he saw was a fairy standing with a teapot and other drinking utensils.
"Have your body healed?"
"Right, I'm fine!"
"Sorry to worry you..."
Then Elena asked the state of the fairy, she answered cheerfully as if nothing had happened to her.
"Ah no, I should be the one apologizing to you...."
"You don't have to do it, it's not your fault Your Majesty!"
The fairy poured the tea in the teapot, then she presented it to Elena gently.
"Please enjoy this tea so that your body is refreshed!"
"Ah thank you...."
Elena took the cup of tea and slowly drank it, the fragrant aroma of the flowers in the tea made her feel refreshed.
"What's the situation right now?"
"Hmmm, the battle is over and we managed to defeat them!"
"Thank God...."
While enjoying a cup of tea together, slowly small conversations began to occur between them.
"However, there are many fairies who died in this battle...."
Slowly Elena put down her cup, her facial expression turned a little agitated.
"That's how it is...."
"But most importantly we managed to protect Alfheim!"
"Yes...."
Then the elf tried to shift the subject, knowing that Elena felt sensitive about the matter, so she did not want to make Elena continue to think about it.
"Well, I'll help!"
"Eh?"
"We must immerse them immediately!"
Suddenly the fairy got up from her seat and wanted to take Elena away.
"Ah, if you don't want to do it no problem, you can stay here!"
"No, I'll come with you!"
"All right."
The elf told Elena not to push herself, but Elena refused, insisting she wanted to stay with him.
After a while they had arrived in front of the castle, they saw Hydra lying down, the courtyard of the castle was wide enough to accommodate a giant dragon.
"Oh, hi...."
They were shocked as Hydra looked at him, and accidentally the elf greeted Hydra.
"Ummm, we'll excuse you!"
Hydra seemed to ignore the two of them, turned her eyes and resumed her sleep.
Then Elena and the elf decided to leave, the fairy developed her four butterfly wings and flew towards the former battlefield.
"Ma.mmm..."
Elena tried to imitate him, she closed her eyes and imagined that there were wings growing on her back, not long after which light particles began to gather on her back, growing six wings of a very large and beautiful butterfly.
"Your Majesty?"
As the elf looked back, he saw Elena who was struggling to fly, she tried to flap her wings firmly to get her body lifted, but the extremely strong wind gusts made it difficult to maintain balance.
"Ah sorry, it seems like you are not used to those wings yet!"
Seeing that the fairy immediately came down and approached Elena.
"Let me help!"
"Sorry..."
"No problem!"
The elf grasped Elena's hand gently, then she taught her how to flap her wings properly.
"All right now flap your wings!"
"Ma.mmm...."
Elena obeyed the wife of the elf, the elf pulled herself up slowly so that her body began to lift, Elena continued to flap her wings slowly while balancing her body.
"Pepsi..."
"Don't worry, keep balancing your body!"
Occasionally she slipped and would fall, but the fairy always guided her gently.
"Bw...."
"Good, keep your position..."
Slowly getting used to it, the fairy praised Elena for successfully doing it even in just a few tries.
"Thank you very much...."
"No problem, I should've helped you."
Elena also thanked the fairy, in her heart she felt a love that had been lost, like a mother who loved her child.
Judging from her appearance, the elf was indeed older than Elena, perhaps that was where the maternal figure was attached to her.
After a while they finally arrived at the expanse of blood-soaked grass.
"Slowly....."
"It's done!"
They landed, the elf helped Elena land safely, Elena's legs trembled slightly when she touched the ground, but quickly the elf held her body back to stand.
"Thank you...."
"Together...."
After that they immediately helped the other fairies to evacuate the corpses that had started to rot.
The Dragon God also helped, he collected the remains of war equipment that could still be used.
And he also sucked the blood that pooled in that place using his red sword.
"Let me help!"
"But Your Majesty...."
"It's okay, I can do it!"
"Ah well...."
Elena offered help to a fairy who was wrapping a corpse using plant tendrils, seeing that the fairy was hesitant to allow it.
A despicable act for her to hire Elena who was considered a candidate for the fairy queen, but because Elena forced her, the fairy finally gave Elena the opportunity to help her.
"We'll wrap her up first!"
"Good!"
The elf also told Elena how to wrap the corpse, she placed both hands on the body of the corpse, Elena had to drain her incarnation into the lifeless body.
From behind his palm slowly grew green tendrils that propagated to the body of the corpse.
The tendrils enveloped the entire body of the corpse with a tightly packed roar, slowly the small flowers began to bloom very beautifully.
"All right, let's move on to the next corpse!"
"I understand!"
Elena and the other elves continued to wrap the bodies of countless elf corpses, it took a huge amount of energy to wrap everything up, so even Elena felt exhausted.
"His Majesty should rest first!"
"Let us take care of this!"
"No problem, let me do it until the end!"
Although she had been asked to rest, Elena still insisted on helping them.
"Well if that's what you want...."
"Thank you..."
Even the elf had no right to forbid it, Elena continued to fight to help the others until the end.
After a long time they were finally finished, the bodies that had been wrapped were gathered in line on a land.
Around it were huge trees growing around the corpse like a guardrail.
"Huh?"
"What's this?"
Elena walked over to join the other fairies, but she did not hesitate to see two brightly glowing gemstones.
Around it were huge chunks of rock resembling golems as well as huge fallen trees, it seemed like they were Guardians Of Nature who had been defeated by the human forces.
Elena also took the two gems very carefully, each of them has a different color, namely green and blue, both gems have a fairly large crack in the middle which makes them appear very fragile.
After that, he took her to the place where the other fairies gathered.
The Dragon God was standing in the middle of the line of corpses, he was clutching a red sword in his hand.
"For every lost soul!"
"We give you an honor!"
"Purification!"
Then the Dragon God thrust his sword into the ground, slowly blood clots overflowing from the ground, the blood forming a huge wave that swallowed the corpses around him to nothing.
Slowly the puddles began to recede, the previously intact corpses had now dissolved into liquid that was sucked into the ground.
Then the dragon god walked out of the location and a red sword was still stuck on the ground.
The fairies marching in unison raised their hands up, they closed both eyes and took a deep breath.
Slowly a chant began to sound, the fairies singing the song Requiem simultaneously, a beautiful melodious voice echoing throughout the sky.
While hugging the jewel in her chest, Elena also listened to the chant of the tone.
Slowly the particles of red light evaporated from the burial place, they were like souls coming out of their bodies.
Without a sudden flash of six butterfly wings stretched across Elena's back, the gemstone she held also emitted a bright light.
Not long after from within the ground grew small plants that filled the burial grounds, there were two tendrils growing wrapped around the red sword embedded there, the breadfruit slowly pulled out the blooming red rose buds.
At the same time, other plants around him continued to grow and began to remove red flower buds as well.
"Waaah....."
As soon as the flower buds bloomed simultaneously, the wind blew fiercely causing the falling flower crown to spread out in all directions.
It was the Red Spider Lily flower, the flower that symbolized death and disaster, just like they were going through right now.
The people closest to them died because of a terrible war, and now all they received was deep sorrow.
Not long after the fairies stopped singing, they stared at the deep red flower garden as they shed tears.
The funeral was finally finished, all the fairies that were there had ushered in the departure of the soldiers who died in battle.